Here's a quick look at the new budget-friendly Acer Liquid M330

The Acer Liquid M330 is an affordable Windows Phone that was announced at IFA 2015, and should be heading to the EMEA region later this year. While it's a budget smartphone, we couldn't resist the opportunity to spend a few moments with the new smartphone.

As for specifications, the M330 sports a quad-core processor, 8GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, 5MP rear shooter (with a 5MP front-facing selfie machine), and a 2,000mAh battery. Again, nothing spectacular, but more than enough to get you through the day.

What's funny is that the Android version of the Window Central app is beautiful, fast, fluid and is a joy to use in comparison with the current Windows Phone version of the app. Tha's kinda sad considering what this site represents..

Hear that. App updates will come across the spectrum of Windows unified OS. It's not so much (really NOT) MSFT OS, as it is everyone catching on. In the mean time... we can be happy with running Win OS, Android (Astoria), and Apple (Islandwood) versions on our Windows devices. .. Oh btw.. who else does 'that' except bootcanp 'after' MSFT? Just sayin'.

Hey, don't force fans with 'high tier' devices.. give me performance (via MSFT os), saddled with decent specs. Glad to see other OEMs producing. We all love Lumia (you have to.. it's been the only player). Manufacturing competition is good, and I say lower spec alternatives are good as well. Hell, I can still piss ios peeps off with my lowly 521 (they hate that.. lol). And I 'will' still have Win10 Mobile on the device through Insider, if they happen not to push it to devices as mine. - Bottom line.. I will upgrade my phone; but to 'tip o the line', prob not. So I say great for other manufacturers entering into WindowsSpere.

And that is not such a bad thing, considering that the uptake for WP OS has been feeble to this point. I think it's good that OEM's are coming back to Windows, even if it's at the low end. I am excited, because similarly that is how Android wrestled away Apple's and Blackberry's dominance in the smartphone market, which by the way, is exactly how MSFT won the PC battle ove Apple. Our role as WP diehards, needs to be on a cheerleading level to draw new users to the platform. An increased user base means greater profitability for the OEM's, which will translate to the "Flagship" devices that we all want, and I can't wait.

Yupp I do ask friends of mine to try my Lumia 730, before buying a new phone.
Two are already converted to Lumia 640 & 640XL.
It's not hard thing to convince when they a great camera and fluidity of OS!

Ummm holy massive bottom bezel Batman. There better be a good reason for that. But it seems the new design language is huge bottom bezels and on-screen keys. Incredibly unfortunate. Looks like I'll be sitting out this round of new handsets and sticking with my Icon for a while.

I believe the mid to lower level phones will soon be making huge market gains here in the US as the phone companies seem to be moving away from the subsidized phone model. I think when people see that they have to pay $600-$1000 for a flagship phone out of pocket....... Good enough phones will be perfectly fine.